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Parties

Berkshire Creative SPARKS! at the Red Lion Inn

Fiona Breslin reports from Stockbridge.Berkshire Creative's SPARK! can be described as a night time networking event that feels more like the most perfect cocktail party. It is always hosted in a new and different divine atmosphere among the eclectic company of interesting and talented individuals with a
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Food

The Final Weeks: Italian Bread and Cabbage Soup

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making(Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to
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Arts

Women Writers Unite! (and Chat) at Berkshire Festival

At the risk of sounding like a self-help guru, I’m going to share with you my Moment of Personal Transformation. It happened about four years when I attended my first writing workshop in Hudson, New York. The facilitator was a short, sharp New York City author and teacher
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Arts

Ecstatic Truth Gumbo: Howard Fishman Quartet at Hudson Opera House

Singer-songwriter-bandleader Howard Fishman knows how to rock a venue — any venue. Since 1999, his unique folk-jazz-Americana has left its mark on New Orleans street corners, Lincoln Center, Manhattan’s tony Algonquin Oak Room, the French TV show Le Petit Journal, and countless clubs and halls. On
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Food

AgriCulture: The High Price of Gas

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. There is considerable discomfort around the nation’s feedlots as industrial cattle growers and their lobbyists find themselves with an increasingly tarnished image. And predictably it is blowbback time as
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Food

Roasted Garlic, Onion, and Potato Galette

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the new cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making(Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to
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Parties

New Horizons: Opening of Hallam+Bruner in Hudson

Scott Baldinger reports from Hudson. Landscape designer and professor David Dew Bruner and realtor/antiques dealer Jonathan Hallam, partners in life, kept separate identities as antiques, art, and design retailers on Hudson's Warren Street. Bruner had his eponymous store on the bustling 600 block and Hallam's
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Wellness

In Amenia, A Community Grows by Leaps and Bounds

To start a dance revolution, the first thing to do is ditch the choreographer. That’s what the wildly creative Pilobolus Dance Theater did when it was founded by a ragtag group of Dartmouth students and their dance teacher in 1971. Ever since, the watchword of the troupe has been
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Parties

"Manifest Destiny" Embraced at Hotchkiss

Dale Stewart reports from Lakeville, CT.On Friday, February 22, the Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School hosted a reception and artist talk with photographer Leigh Merrill, pictured left, and about 60 staff, students, and local artists. The show, Manifest Destiny: Photographic Works by Leigh Merrill, is an exhibition of
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Parties

10×10 RAP (Real Art Party) at Berkshire Museum

Fiona Breslin reports from Pittsfield.The 10×10 RAP (Real Art Party) opening reception, held on February 20, at the Berkshire Museum, was the embodiment of why our region can prove to be so stimulating. On an otherwise quiet night on North Street, the opening was a commingling of more
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Parties

Spencertown Revels

Dale Stewart reports from Spencertown, New York.On Saturday, February 16, love was in the air at this year’s Spencertown Revels Movable Feast. The event, which boasted a Be Our Valentine theme, was a benefit for The Spencertown Academy Arts Center, and also served as a much needed mid-
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Arts

Selected Shorts: Review of BSC's 10x10 New Play Festival

If you have to have a citywide arts festival in the dead of winter, you absolutely must have good theater somewhere, if not everywhere. And preferably of the kind that doesn’t strain the audience’s understandably frigid attention span. This is a hallmark of 2013’s 10x10 Upstreet Festival
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